You could have knocked me out with a feather when I read that Pan was not CGI, but Doug Jones in a suit with animatronic facial features. Looking back on it, there is not way that Pan could ever have been CGI. He moved like a real creature.

I think what GDT means by " animatronic" is to bring back and revitalize the sadly lost art of movie puppetry, but of course with a modern twist. (If Jim Henson were still alive, he'd have tears in his eyes.Looks like PL won't be the only film I'll be re-watching..time to dig out my 25th anniversary edition of "The Dark Crystal" too! And I am sure the result will knock our socks off! It will be amazing....if PJ "invented" the art of live-action. to mo-cap with Andy Serkis, in a sense enhancing CGI technology, Del Toro will (re-)invent a new art form of "puppetry" and CGI Yes, I KNOW animatroics is not the same as puppetry but in essence that's what it tries to be, and sometimes is.(Interesting if the technolgy had been used 28 yrs ago with Yoda...instead of him being pure puppet....has it really been that long?),

There is a new technolgy of CGI immersing real actors that is struggling to be born...aided by the increasing conversion of film to digital..."Beowulf" is evidence of this. I wonder if Del Toro is in a sesne reacting to that, and that if he is successful in his effrots, we could witness a revisionsm in film slightily back to favoring actors and the "human element" again.

Not to knock PJ OF COURSE....I mean, only what his successors have done, and the what they are trying to do..the direction film seems to be going in.

Reading Doug Jones's website is VERY informative. He has a FANTASTIC WEBSITE.....you can link to it on DelToroFilms.com.